Improvement in bridle-bit attachments



G. M. ALEXANDER. BRIDLE ATTACHMENT.

No. 34,843. Patented Feb. 11, 1862.

UNITED STATES PATENT OrricE.

C. M. ALEXANDER, OF \VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRlDLE-BIT ATTACHMENTS.

To 11% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. M. ALEXANDER, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bridle-Bit- Attachments; and I do ring in said shank for the headstall, and C and D are the rings for the reins. To the ring 0, I attach a spring E, which is provided with a ring at its other end. F represents a strap, which passes from the ring D to the ring G on. theend of the spring.

The bridle-rein in this case is attached to the ring G, and is marked H. It will be readily seen that when an easy pressure is applied to therein H the spring will act upon the bit direct; but as soon as a heavy pressure is applied the spring yields and the strap F causes the curb to act on the jaw of the horse.

The strap F maybe made longer or shorter, thus putting on the curb sooner or later, or by more or less pressure. hen the strap has more slack, of course there will be greater direct pressure on the bit, and it will take a harder pull on the reins to make the curb act.

Some horses may require the strap F to be made short or direct from ring D to ring G, so that the curb may be let on gently the moment the rider begins to draw the reins.

The spring here used is of peculiar-construction. I use a coiled-wire spring and run two wires through it from each end, such as are seen in Figure l. The wires L have a loop, as seen, at one end, while they bend around at their other ends to embrace and catch upon the spring, as shown. When rings are inserted in the looped ends of the rods and these rings are drawn in opposite directions, the spring is contracted. \Vhen pressure is removed from the rings, the spring assumes its normal position. This form of springattachment is the simplest and most effective of any used for contracting a spring, said at tachment not being liable to objections on account of expensiveness in construction or inefficiency under the various circumstances to which it is necessarily exposed when used upon the bridle.

I do not claim the use of spings applied to bridle bits and reins of the general construction herein described; but

I do claim The arrangement of the looped wires L L, passing. through the springs, when used in combination with the shank A, strap F, and bridle-rein ll, as and for the purpose herein specified.

' C. M. ALEXANDER.

Witnesses:

J. AMEs, M. HINES. 

